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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: ATTENTION DEM 2016 CANDIDATES: HEED THIS WARNING! [View all]liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)17. WHAT?
Last edited Thu Nov 26, 2015, 08:04 PM - Edit history (1)
Of course I wish Grimes had won! What I'm saying is she didn't win because she played the part of a republican lite. I hate mcconell if I lived in Kentucky I would have been the first in line to vote for her, I'm just saying that she was hurting herself with the weird blue dog role she was playing.
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Don't forget that one of the Democratic candidates was quite actively supporting Grimes
tularetom
Nov 2015
#1
unlike bernie sanders hillary campaigns for democrats running for office. only in bernie land is
msongs
Nov 2015
#2
The kind of Democrats the Clintons campaign for are not necessarily the best kind of Democrats to elect
tularetom
Nov 2015
#4
You wouldn't have wanted to see Grimes electe and throw McConnell out of office?
George II
Nov 2015
#16
Grimes was the DEMOCRATIC candidate in that election, who should she have campaigned for?
George II
Nov 2015
#37
With leadership like Debbie Downer and Hillary the Inevitable, who needs Republicans?
Chan790
Nov 2015
#31
I don't think their problem was distancing themselves from Obama, but distancing themselves from
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Nov 2015
#5